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Bias Score Analysis
The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.
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| Sentence | Sentiment | Bias |
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| "Starting this month, the European Union, Russia's largest historical energy customer, began phasing out Russian oil imports while Group of Seven nations approved an oil price cap for Russian imports." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| In an interview with WABC radio, Santos said he was going to hire those people. | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| Santos even said he still thinks he will be an effective lawmaker. | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| During the campaign, Santos claimed he was in charge of his family's real-estate portfolio of 13 New York properties and that he owned an apartment in Rio de Janeiro, but he admitted to the Post that he doesn't own any real estate.nn | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| The Times found that Santos did have a Florida driver's license and was registered to vote there in 2016, the year of the shooting, but he didn't provide any additional information about the company he said he was starting. | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "I campaigned talking about the people's concerns, not my ru00e9sumu00e9," Santos told the Post, adding, "I intend to deliver on the promises I made during the campaign -- fighting crime, fighting to lower inflation, improving education." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| nnSantos told the Post that he's now married to a man. | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| Santos, 34, said he didn't graduate from college in 2010 as he'd claimed. | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "I am not a criminal here -- not here or in Brazil or any jurisdiction in the world," Santos said. | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| Last week, several news outlets alleged that Representative-elect George Santos (R-N.Y.) fabricated large parts of his biography -- including where he went to college, his employment history, losing multiple employees in the 2016 Pulse Nightclub shooting, and even that his grandparents were Jewish and had to flee Nazi persecution. | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| I'm sorry," Santos told the Post, adding, "I didn't graduate from any institution of higher learning. | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| Now, Santos is admitting that, yes, he made a bunch of that up, but, no, he doesn't plan to step down. | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| In a statement on Tuesday they said Santos "deceived us and misrepresented his heritage. | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| (The Daily Beast reported that the divorce was in September 2019, less than two weeks before he launched his first campaign, but Santos told the Post he got divorced in 2017.) | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| In an interview with the New York Post published on Monday, Santos attempted to address some of his many fabrications. | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| As for the claim that his Jewish maternal grandparents fled persecution in World War II Europe, Santos said his grandmother told stories about converting from Judaism to Catholicism. | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| The Daily Beast reported that Santos was married to a woman until shortly before launching his failed 2020 House campaign. | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| And, finally, Santos vehemently denied reporting from the Times that he was criminally charged for check fraud in Brazil after he stole someone's checkbook at age 19. | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| Despite this lengthy accounting for various lies in multiple interviews, Santos said he will not step down as the Congressman-elect for New York's 3rd Congressional district, which includes parts of Long Island and Queens. | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| Santos, who bears the dubious distinction of being "the first openly gay non-incumbent Republican elected to the House," also faced accusations that he'd lied about his sexual orientation. | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| (That WABC interview was strangely conducted by Anthony Weiner, the disgraced former Congressman and ex-husband of Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, and John Catsimatidis the owner of Gristedes supermarkets and a Republican megadonor.) | Negative | -50% Liberal |
| (That WABC interview was strangely conducted by Anthony Weiner, the disgraced former Congressman and ex-husband of Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, and John Catsimatidis the owner of Gristedes supermarkets and a Republican megadonor.) | Negative | -50% Liberal |
| nnSantos claimed he could also explain his statement that he lost four employees in the Pulse Nightclub shooting, despite the fact that The New York Times couldn't find any ties between the 49 victims and the companies where Santos worked. | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| nnSantos claimed he could also explain his statement that he lost four employees in the Pulse Nightclub shooting, despite the fact that The New York Times couldn't find any ties between the 49 victims and the companies where Santos worked. | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| The RJC said that it's *Susan Collins voice* "very disappointed" in Santos, but notably did not call for him to resign. | Negative | -60% Liberal |
| The RJC said that it's *Susan Collins voice* "very disappointed" in Santos, but notably did not call for him to resign. | Negative | -60% Liberal |
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55% : Starting this month, the European Union, Russia's largest historical energy customer, began phasing out Russian oil imports while Group of Seven nations approved an oil price cap for Russian imports.*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.